Practical and comprehensive, this essential resource helps you plan individualized care for clients in a variety of settings, including acute care, extended care, and home care environments. It features 33 detailed nursing diagnosis care plans and 65 disease/disorder care plans that are keyed to specific expected outcomes and interventions. This book also includes the popular Online Care Planner that allows you to edit and print standardized nursing diagnosis care plans.

A complete discussion of caring for older adult clients and changes that occur with aging helps you understand the unique considerations of caring for this population group.

New to this Edition

A new care plan format focuses on prioritized nursing interventions, interventions that can be delegated, and documentation criteria, as well as differentiating between independent and collaborative nursing actions.

"This reference offers a two-color, two-column layout, with nursing assessments and therapeutic interventions on the left, and rationales on the right. After opening guidelines on how to manage and delegate nursing care, the book presents nursing and surgery care plans, with chapters organized by body region and body system. Each care plan identifies relevant nursing diagnoses and collaborative diagnoses. For each diagnosis, there is information on etiology, desired outcomes, and a complete list of nursing actions, potential complications, and notes on client teaching. This seventh edition contains expanded information on acute care, community, extended care, and home care settings. It has been updated to include the most recent NANDA International nursing diagnoses, outcomes classifications, and nursing interventions classifications. The companion website offers a care planner with a set of 33 nursing diagnoses and interventions, plus 70 pathophysiology animations. Haugen teaches at Samuel Merritt University. Galura is a clinical nurse educator at Florida Hospital."